Beginning at the end decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry
In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's &quo...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Decadence and decolonization
- Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the politics of form for form's sake
- Decadence and the visual arts in Derek Walcott's West Indies
- Decadence and anti-realism in the art of Yinka Shonibare
- Bernardine Evaristo's silver-age poetics
- Decadence and the archive in Derek Mahon's The yellow book
- Conclusion: Dandies at the gate.